Personal markets funding agency Companions Group has made three senior appointments to its actual property enterprise.
Karim Habra has been named international co-head of actual property based mostly in Zug, Switzerland, Stephen McCall is international head of platforms and opcos based mostly in London and Henrik Orrbeck has been appointed as co-head of actual property Europe based mostly in London.
McCall will begin in February, whereas Habra and Orrbeck will each be part of the agency in March.
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Habra will work alongside Mike Bryant, who’s a accomplice and the agency’s present head of actual property. Habra has over 25 years of business expertise and joins from Ivanhoe Cambridge, the true property funding arm of Canadian pension fund CDPQ, the place he was head of Europe and Asia-Pacific and international head of strategic partnerships.
McCall has greater than 25 years of operational management expertise and will probably be answerable for overseeing the agency’s technique for investing in actual property administration groups and working firms.
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He was beforehand chief govt at edyn Group, a global hybrid hospitality platform owned by Brookfield Asset Administration. Previous to that, he spent practically 17 years at IHG.
Orrbeck will work alongside AJ Jager, who’s a managing director inside the workforce. Orrbeck has over 20 years of business expertise and joins from EQT the place he was a accomplice and founding member of the agency’s actual property enterprise.
Throughout his time at EQT, he raised two funds and constructed a European workforce which invested in direct belongings, working companions, and public firms.
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Companions Group stated that the brand new appointments replicate its dedication to additional scaling its actual property enterprise, which at present has $17bn (£13.3bn) in belongings beneath administration.
“Personal markets are set to play a essential position in reworking actual property belongings to fulfill highly effective thematic development tendencies, reminiscent of decarbonization, altering client preferences, and digitization,” stated Juri Jenkner, president, co-head of investments at Companions Group.
“We’ve got a transparent strategic imaginative and prescient for a way we wish to develop our actual property enterprise. The intensive mixed expertise of Karim, Henrik, and Stephen will probably be extraordinarily useful as we scale and navigate by disruption throughout occupier markets.”